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I support engagement and philanthropy with UQ's critical health research in fields including cancer, heart attack, stroke, diabetes, infectious diseases (including COVID), superbugs, chronic pain and genome innovation. UQ's Institute of Molecular Bioscience (IMB) is Australia's #1 research institute and their research, drug discovery, treatments and cures makes a life-changing difference in peoples lives.

• Business Development & industry relationship building - working with Business Industry Partners / Leading Employers to promote careers / employability events, recruitment campaigns & job opportunities• Business Development & relationship building - working with Business Industry Partners / Leading Employers to promote events, recruitment campaigns & job opportunities• High Volume Employability Skills Workshops - designing, presenting and facilitating (both in person and online - in 2020, circa 3,000 people attended circa 60 of my workshops & events)• Work Experience Program Lead - Student Work Experience Program (SWEP) - campaign recruitment to place hundreds of BEL students in professional work experience placements • Mentoring Program Lead - BEL Career Mentoring Program - connecting students with industry mentors• Lead for all Accounting, Information Systems and HR Students• Placing students in Work Experience Opportunities via BEL Career Services Programs• Providing career advice to students &• Event management, significant public speaking and employability presentations• Effective stakeholder management.

2019 Winner - Team, National Award for Programs that Enhance Learning (AAUT) 2018 Winner - Team, QS - Wharton Gold Winner “best university-employer partnerships” 2018 Finalist - UQ, Most Popular Careers Service, AAGE Awards2017 Winner - Team, UQ Award & Grant for Programs that Enhance Learning2017 Finalist - UQ, Most Popular Careers Service, AAGE Awards2016 Winner - Team, Australian Financial Review - Higher Education Awards - Employability 2016 Winner - UQ, Most Popular Careers Service, AAGE Awards2016 Individual Nominee - UQ BEL Employee Dean's Excellence Awards2015 Winner - Team UQ BEL Employee Dean's Excellence AwardsThe UQ BEL Faculty Student Employability Team is a unique uni & faculty based team where many team members have commercial backgrounds in the Schools they support. My role is to assist Commerce students to gain professional work experience and graduate opportunities, teach employability skills and generate networking opportunities.This role includes:• Creating, organising and presenting multiple employability skills workshops (both in person and online - in 2019, circa 2,500 people attended my workshops)• Project Leader - UQ Student Work Experience Program• Lead for all Accounting, Information Systems and HR Students• Working with Business Industry Partners to promote events & recruitment campaigns / opportunities• Placing students in Work Experience Opportunites via BEL SET Programs• Business development / networking building commercial relationships• Providing career advice to student &• Event management, significant public speaking and employability presentations• Effective stakeholder management. Working with leading companies, I represent UQ's Commerce (Accounting, Finance & Business Information Systems) students.

Business Development, Networking, Key Account Management & 360 degree recruitment of Accounting, Finance and Economics staff in Brisbane for large companies and government entities (on a permanent, contract or casual basis).

HR Advisory / Generalist / Policy - working in a strong team environment

Corporate Tax consulting and compliance for large ASX listed companies based in Brisbane. Duties included: Tax consulting (corporate tax research, providing tax advice, drafting tax position papers) Tax compliance (preparation of income tax returns, FBT returns, tax effect accounting) and Staff supervision.

Working closely with Senior Business Banking Managers based in the Brisbane CBD division, this graduate role involved: business and cashflow analysis, consulting and preparing proposals and reports for business lending.